... the '-' is superfruous as well! I'd go to the / directory and tar cfz /tmp/everything.tar.gz <list of everything there except for /tmp, /proc and /dev> and then copy the result to one of your win drives.
Having just compared a clean FC4 and an upgrade, the points made by Volker abour moving desktop setups out of the way are *really* important! Obviously not an issue with the clean install, but... Steve On Fri, August 26, 2005 10:09 am, Roger Searle wrote: > OK so I will make some tarfiles of the relevant folders. Having looked > at the man page I understand generally the command "tar -NumerousOptions > directoryname" but my next question is which options should I use? And > should that also include gzipping too? (The order of these options > seems to be important sometimes - I have not quite managed to get my > head around that.) > > Cheers, > Roger > > > Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > >>>Apart from the windows drives, is this saying that the linux install is >>>just on hdb7 and tmpfs? >>> >>> >> >>Yes and no. tmpfs is just a ramdisk, no need to back that up. ;) >> >>All your Linux stuff is in hdb7. If you change your partition layout, >>put /home onto a seperate partition, because then you can upgrade Linux >>while leaving your user files in place (backup would still be a good >>idea). >> >>Tar up /etc and keep it, it has almost all your machine's configuration >>in it. Do this as root, to back up non-public files as well. Do the same >>with /usr/local if you installed any software into it (this would be >>through compiling that software, not through rpms). Back up your whole >>/home if you want. Your KDE configuration is in ~/.kde/, but all the >>user config files are in your home directory. KDE might not behave >>totally the same if it finds user config files of a previous version. If >>you want to be surprised about new default features, rename ~/.kde to >>~/.kde-- (from the console!!!) before you log in for the first time >>witht he GUI. >> >>Keep in mind that tar does not preserve ownerships unless you unpack as >>root. Unpack into a new directory, then copy/move things in place as >>needed, don't just unpack over an existing directory. When storing >>things on Billyware filesystems nothing is preserved and therefore >>always use tar, or you'll be cursing the day. >> >>Volker >> >> >> > -- Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what?
